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  Multimedia Features Photos of Liza Minnelli in “Liza’s at the Palace . . .”  David Carr reports from the 2008 Gotham Independent Film Awards, with a behind-the-scenes look at the front line of the awards season; the red carpet. More Good Stuff1. What you should be reading next year, if you haven’t yet this year. 2. What TV shows you should be watching online, if you aren’t already. 3. Are you the office wife or the jealous sibling? 4. Even Fifth Ave. stores are not exempt from “limbo lows.” 5. Is nanotechnology dangerous — in cosmetics? Related Sections on NYTimes.com | NIGHTLIFE Put On Your Red Shoes  Miss Maro
It’s empirical: everyone loves David Bowie. So don your best Labyrinthine, Stardust-y, Young American get-up and glittery eye makeup for Saturday’s BowieBall. Michael T. and five others will be behind the decks; Earl Slick, a guitarist who worked with Bowie, will perform; and there will be a costume contest, glam makeovers and gender-bending nudity. As the Thin White Duke would say, let’s dance. Spare Times, by Melena Ryzik
FILM Hit Men
“Cadillac Records,” the story of the label that helped define Chicago blues in the 1940s and 50s, “would be worth seeing for the music alone,” writes A. O. Scott. But it’s also got terrific performances from Jeffrey Wright, Beyoncé and Mos Def, as well as “an uncommonly astute treatment of race in America at the end of the Jim Crow era,” Scott writes. Go see it; the movie “hums, it purrs and it roars.” “Got Their Musical Mojo Working,” by A. O. Scott “Pop Music’s Dreamgirl Awakens Her Earthy Side,” by Alan Light MUSIC The Bands From Brazil
Hurry: there are still tickets available for BAM’s Red Hot and Rio, which Jon Pareles calls “an all-star assembly of Brazilian musicians who deserve to be heard more widely in the United States.” The lineup this weekend includes next-gen performers like Bebel Gilberto, CéU and Kassin +2 — Alexandre Kassin, Domenico Lancelotti and Moreno Veloso (son of Caetano). Stick around for free performances by the Turkish-born sax player, keyboardist and owner of Nublu Ilhan Ersahin on Friday and the Budos Band on Saturday. The Week Ahead – Pop, by Jon Pareles “Brazilians Who Take Their Fun Mixed With a Clatter,” by Jon Pareles SHOPPING Do It Yourself, in a Crowd
You’ve already scoped out Union Square and Bryant Park is, like, in Midtown or something? But if you’re still in the holiday market market, there are other options. The Brooklyn Flea now has an indoor space at the Masonic Temple where you can get all your indie goods while warmly listening to a DJ. Tomorrow at the Knitting Factory, a bunch of Etsy sellers will host the Handmade Cavalcade with locally designed and produced stuff. And on Sunday, the blog Brooklyn Based will hold a D.I.Y.-heavy craft fair at 3rd Ward in Williamsburg. Who needs Big Boxes? ART Choose Your Nostalgia
Most of the art world is partying like it’s 1989 at Art Basel Miami, but at The Studio Museum in Harlem it’s back to the 1970s for “Birth of the Cool,” an exhibition of portraits by Barkley L. Hendricks. Remember the days when, as Ken Johnson recalls the look, “loose, bright-red below-the-knee shorts, canvas basketball sneakers, striped athletic socks, a wide-collared sailor shirt, denim jacket and a long-billed cap” were the essence of cool? Oh, who are we kidding: they still are. And on Sunday, admission to the museum is free. “Slick and Styling: Provocative Poses,” by Ken Johnson COMEDY Fun for the Whole Family
Attention fans of “The Sarah Silverman Program” and the “Comedians of Comedy” movie: your favorite big gay neighbor, Brian Posehn, is headlining Comix this weekend. Catch his set for jokes about drugs, sex, Slayer and the intersection thereof. |
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